After breakfast we transferred to the Samburu Airstrip to fly to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. What a charming airport. Very different than we are use to. Here is a picture. Note the duty free shop. Air Kenya was fabulous and we enjoyed a great view of Kenya from the air. Mid day we arrived at our destination the Ashnil Mara Camp. The camp sits on 25 million years of pre-historic land. Masai Mara is the northern most extension of the Serengeti Plains and one of the richest wildlife game reserves and is 1510 square kilometers in size. It is home to the awesome lion, leopard, giraffes, elephants, rhios, zebra, wildebeest and other plains game. On our game drives we saw two lion couples celebrating their ‘honeymoon’ as our game driver so delicately put it. Lions mate frequently for 72 hours and viola, three to four month later a baby lion is born. The female lion seemed to enjoy it and followed the male looking for more.
Yesterday a lion killed a hippo and today everyone was enjoying the meal. Male lions ate first, then females and once they left it was a free-for-all with the hyenas, vultures and jackels. Once the lions came back, everyone else scattered. We also saw a Topi Antelope just after giving birth. The baby was just standing up for the first time which meant the birth had to have happened only 20 minutes before.
Here is a cape buffalo.